Several graduate students and faculty from the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Department, Chemistry Department, and the Molecular Biophysics Program presented their research at the 2014 Annual Biophysical Society meeting in San Francisco, Calif. Feb. 15-19.
The Biophysical Society encourages development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics through meetings, publications and committee outreach activities. Every year, the society holds an annual meeting that brings together more than 6,000 research scientists in different fields representing biophysics.
Wesleyan graduate students, from left, Katie Kaus, Stephen Frayne, Yan Li, Shu Zhang, Anushi Sharma and Harikrushan Ranpura, presented research at the the Biophysical Society meeting.
Pictured at the Biophysical Society meeting are, from left, graduate student Yan Li; Rich Olson, assistant professor of molecular biology and biochemistry; Ishita Mukerji, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, dean of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division, and graduate student Katie Kaus.Molecular biology and biochemistry graduate student Yan Li presented her research titled “Global and Local Conformational Studies of Mismatched Duplex DNA upon Msh2-Msh6 Binding by Steady-State and Time-Resolved Fluorescence.”Chemistry graduate student Stephen Frayne presented his research titled “High Generation Dendrimers via Thiol-Michael Click Chemistry” at the meeting.
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